[lg policy] British English loans into AmE

[Kate Brett]

Some well-known figures in Linguistics are quoted by the BBC in this news 
article today, which I thought might be of interest. Here is the start:

"There is little that irks British defenders of the English language more 
than Americanisms, which they see creeping insidiously into newspaper 
columns and everyday conversation. But bit by bit British English is 
invading America too.
"Spot on - it's just ludicrous!" snaps Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the 
University of California at Berkeley.
""You are just impersonating an Englishman when you say spot on."
"Will do - I hear that from Americans. That should be put into 
quarantine," he adds.
"And don't get him started on the chattering classes - its overtones of a 
distinctly British class system make him quiver."
Read the full article at 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19670686

Kate Brett
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